Why volunteer for an HIV cure study? A community group undertakes its own research to find out

June 14, 2017
| By Mary Engel / Fred Hutch News Service

People who volunteer for HIV cure studies “want to feel like they’re contributing to the greater body of knowledge,” according to a community-led study. “But they want to feel like they can trust [the researchers], like they’re being treated with respect.”

American Indians and Alaska Natives tackle HIV stigma, talk cure

March 23, 2017
| By Mary Engel / Fred Hutch News Service

Bill Hall, a Tlingit from Southeast Alaska, has a message for other Alaska Natives and American Indians about his work as a member of the Fred Hutch-based defeatHIV community advisory board. “For efforts like ours to succeed,” he said, “it’s going to take every community affected by HIV/AIDS to become involved in the search for a cure.”

At an HIV cure workshop, activists and researchers celebrated Timothy Ray Brown's 10th 'birthday.' A decade ago, Brown became the first and so far only person in the world to be cured of HIV after undergoing grueling bone marrow transplants to treat life-threatening leukemia. Over and over again on Sunday, he heard people say, "Timothy, you give me hope."

A decade after the first and so far only known HIV cure, researchers are hard at work to find a cure for many more

Feb. 7, 2017
| By Mary Engel / Fred Hutch News Service

A decade after Timothy Ray Brown underwent a bone marrow transplant that made him the first person to be cured of HIV, scientists at Fred Hutch and other institutions are working hard to make sure he will not remain the only person cured.